Counting device



Patented Oct. 3, 1922.

UNITED ySTATI-:1s )PATENT OFFICE.

SAM WOLF, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO 'JACQUES ROUSSO,r OF LOS ANGELES,

' CALIFORNIA.

Application inea yJanuary is,

To all @ohm/tit may concern COUNTING- DEVICE.

Be it known that I, SAM WOLF, a citizen of the United States, and

a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements of which the following is My invention relates to in Counting Devices,

a specification. improvements in counting devices especially adapted for use in conjunction with devices for counting perforated articles, such as grometed towels, and has for its object the provision of an improved construction of this character whereby. articles having different sizes of perforations or gromets therein may be readily and accurately counted.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists tions and arrangements in the combinaof parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Fig. l, is a side view, shown partially in section, of a counting devi invention,

ce embodying the Fig. 2, a partial top plan view illustrating the use of the same towe having a large of the same in conjunction ing a small gromet.

The preferred form in conjunction with a gromet, and, ig. 3, a similar view, illustrating the use with a towely havof construction, as

illustrated in the drawings, comprises an upstanding hollow post 4,

having a depressible spring-held plunger 5 therein, leading into a casing 6 containing Or registering mechanism any usual or desired for suitable counting which may be of m. Such an arrangementof registering mechanism is illustrated and described in the co-pending application, Serial 13, 1919, by

pivotally mounted at 7 in post 4 and 6 therein, connected plunofer 5. the ide of No. 270,876, filed January Jacques Rousso, assignee of this application. A counting fingerv 6 is the upper end of projects laterally through a slot said linger 6 being also pivotally at 8 to the upper A guide spring 9 is post 4 opposite the end of the arranged in slot 6', said guide spring projecting laterally through `a slot 10 provided for the purpose. The

spring!) is in substantially V form with the apex of wide or flattened the V positioned f thus may serial ivo. 542,782.

opposite the extreme point of the finger 6 when the latter is in inwardly folded position.

kThe device is especially adapted for use in counting grometed towels, a portion of such a towel being illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, wherein the towel ll is provided with a gromet'- 12. It has been found that these groinets vary somewhat in size after cons iderable wear, and also that it is desirable to be able to count towels having gromets which originally varied somewhat in size. The` device illustrated is adapted to count such towels. In use, the towel is pressed downwardly over the post 4, the gromet therein forcing the finger 6 inwardly, flush with the side of said post, which actuates the registering mechanism in casing 6, as will be readily understood. Where the opening in the gromet is larger than the diameter of the post 4, the linger 6 will not be forced completely into the slot 6 and fail to operate the registering mechanism. To prevent this, the spring 9 is provided, said spring having a resistance greater than the resistance of linger 6. Thus `where a towel is provided with a gromet which is considerably larger than the post 4, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the spring 9 will force the gromet to travel With its oppositeside in close contact with the post 4, thus fully depressing the finger 6, whereupon the spring 9 will also yield somewhat to permit of the downward passagey of the gromet in case the gromet is small enough to require such yielding. Thus the towels 90 or other articles having gromets of variable sizes may be readily and accurately counted. While I have illustrated `and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

aving described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters atent is 105 `l. A device of the class described comprising a guide; a yieldable finger projecting from one side of said guide; and a yieldable guide projecting from the opposite side of said first mentioned guide, said yieldable 110 guide cao-operating With said linger to coinpel complete Operation o' the latter upon the passage of articles of varying sizes over said first mentioned guide, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described cornprising a hollow post; a yieldable [inger pivoted in said post, there being a slot in the side of said post through which said finger projects; and a yieldable spring guide projecting Yfrom the Opposite side of said post, said spring guide having a resistance greater than the resistance ot said finger, substantially as described.

3. A device of the class described coinprising a guide; a yieldable inger projecting from one side of said guide; and a yieldable guide projecting from the side of said irst mentioned guide opposite said finger and co-operating therewith to cause open ation of the latter by the passage of articles of varying sizes over said first mentioned guide, the resistance or said yieldable guide being greater than that of said finger, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

SAM WOLF.

Witnesses:

HELEN F. Timms, JOSHUA R. H. Porrs. 

